How E-Commerce Is Finally Disrupting The $600 Billion-A-Year Grocery Industryhttp://www.businessinsider.com/e-commerce-disrupting-600-billion-grocery-industry-2014-8/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Fri, 09 Dec 2016 22:09:13 -0500Cooper Smithhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/542483b1eab8eac51e082e4astephen russellThu, 25 Sep 2014 17:05:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/542483b1eab8eac51e082e4a
Vons had this service some years & maybe still does
Seen only 1 Amazon Fresh truck in my area.
None from Ralphs etc. yet.
If disruptive, they should be hiring more IF have warehouses to ship foods.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5413d90b6bb3f73a36e92dd3Winston SmithSat, 13 Sep 2014 01:41:31 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5413d90b6bb3f73a36e92dd3
"[F]ood and beverage is by far the largest retail category in the U.S. by a wide margin. "
Thanks for clearing that up. I had always thought it was by far the largest retail category by a narrow margin.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5407dc4cecad043d08359f18PastTenseWed, 03 Sep 2014 23:28:12 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/5407dc4cecad043d08359f18
18 billion dollars is 3% of 600 billion dollars--and no one other than Business Insider is going to call 3% a disruption.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/54079942ecad045871359f23JonasWed, 03 Sep 2014 18:42:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/54079942ecad045871359f23
I guess it depends on the country how successful an online grocery business will be! In Sweden, Belgium and UK online sales of food is tremendous, in country like Germany all businesses run bad. Either they make a lot of loss year after year like big companies, Amazon, mytime.de and allyouneed.com are one of those. If it is a smaller startup they usually go bankrupt or just cancel the business because it is not profitable. I would say US look similar like the German market so I would be comfortable investing in this market.
For the record, myself sell groceries online i parts of Germany since 2,5 years!http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fded19eab8ea3636a8e7fefamullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:37:13 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fded19eab8ea3636a8e7fe
Across the country hundreds of companies are helping reverse a long trend of sending American manufacturing jobs overseas.
They're doing what's known as reshoring, which is bringing production back home to the United States instead of chasing cheap labor and other incentives in developing nations.
Bringing Jobs Home
During the last four years about a 100,000 jobs have returned to the United States, according to the Reshoring Initiative, a non-profit group based in Chicago.
Many factors contribute to the United States regaining a competitive edge over countries like India, Japan, and China.
"Chinese wages have been rising, expressed in U.S. dollars, at 15 to 18 percent per year, for the last 18 years," Harry Moser, founder of the Reshoring Initiative, said. "Whereas in the U.S., it's stayed stationary."
Other reasons include delivery time, quality, and innovation.
"Turns out you can't innovate the product very well if you don't manufacture the product," Moser said. "So when you can bring together the engineering manager, the engineer and the factory worker, get them together as a team, improve the product, improve the process by which the product is made, it works a lot better."
Unplugging from China?
Chesapeake Bay Candle Company opened its first domestic manufacturing facility in 2011.
"We've created 80 jobs in the last three years," Mei Xu, the company's owner and CEO, said.
Xu started the company in 1994 in her Maryland basement.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeb1a69beddfe6f6e0e0dfamullarWed, 27 Aug 2014 10:28:42 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fdeb1a69beddfe6f6e0e0d
"Sony, yet another large company, but they aren't spending the waves of cash they obtain on their customers' PSN service. End the greed," the group said in a post.
The fact Sony has once again seen its service taken down has drawn strong condemnation from experts, including Dr Kevin Curran, senior member of IEEE and a senior lecturer in computer science at the University of Ulster. He told Computing "Sony does not understand security".
He continued: "Data theft of personal information of 70 million PlayStation Network members still annoys those of us involved in the security industry."
He suggested that Sony's poor response to the initial PSN hack still makes it an attractive target for hackers.
"They basically had no encryption worth mentioning on those records, it was simply incredible how poorly they protected those records. They also had a terrible PR response to the situation and I honestly believe many hackers have not forgotten that," said Dr Curran.
TK Keanini, chief technology officer at network security company Lancope, agreed. He argued that Sony still has yet to fully learn the lessons of the extensive 2011 PlayStation Network hack.
"Security is a business-level commitment, much like safety or quality: it requires all levels of the organisation to change and do things different. For whatever reason, PSN is not there yet despite their high-profile history of security breaches," he told Computing.
He added, though, that he expects Sony to eventually solve its security issues. "I'm certain they will get there over time because they must. The users are counting on them to 'co-evolve' and remain resilient to these threats. They need to level up."http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fbce23ecad04be726bc0eeTheFree_LanceMon, 25 Aug 2014 20:00:35 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/53fbce23ecad04be726bc0ee
Hell, half of Millennials would pay extra for unicorn delivery. The other half, the idea of eating something, anything besides mom's three entrees and take-out from Frankie's (down by the overpass) is positively enthralling. Don't build a biz on a generation with no clue and no money.